Effelsberg System Clock Changed to UTC

09.05.03 / jn

On May, 7 , 2003 we changed the system clock used for the telescope process environment from MEZ to UTC. This was necessary in order to avoid problems with new instrumentation, which uses Universal Time (UTC) delivered by GPS. Normally in the data or DAPs the archived time was and still is UT creating no problems to user programs, which use that time.

However, for archived pulsar data there is a change in the zone time, because the time of the system clock was used directly (before this changement MEZ, but now UTC).

In connection with that also the VAX- and the SUN-computers have been changed to UTC.